Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Complete DHS Daily Report for April 16, 2013
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Top Stories
• The U.S. Food and Drug Administration seized
about $1 million of inventory from V.I.P. Foods, Inc. in Ridgewood because the
building was overrun with rodents. – WPIX 11 New York
18.
April 13, WPIX 11 New York – (New
York) Kosher food market infested with rats. The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration seized about $1 million of inventory from V.I.P. Foods, Inc. in Ridgewood
because the building was overrun with rodents. Source: http://pix11.com/2013/04/13/kosher-food-market-infested-with-rats/#axzz2QX1U9k9c
• Nearly 2 million gallons of
partially-treated wastewater was sent to Lake Winnebago after heavy rains
pounded the Fond du Lac area and overwhelmed the treatment plant. – Fond du
Lac Reporter
20.
April 11. Fond du Lac Reporter –
(Wisconsin) Heavy rain forces bypass of Fond du Lac wastewater treatment
plant. Nearly 2 million gallons of partially-treated wastewater was sent
the water to Lake Winnebago after heavy rains pounded the Fond du Lac area and
overwhelmed the treatment plant. Source: http://www.fdlreporter.com/article/20130412/FON0101/304120097/Heavy-rain-forces-bypass-Fond-du-Lac-wastewater-treatment-plant?nclick_check=1
• A growing series of brute force attacks
against Wordpress blogs appears to be designed to compromise servers and
recruit them into a large botnet that is already comprised of over 90,000
servers. – Krebs on Security See
item 35 below in the Information
Technology Sector
• More than 135 firefighters fought a
three-alarm blaze for more than 2 hours which left 37 people injured. – New
York Daily News
39.
April 13, New York Daily News – (New
York) 37 injured in South Bronx apartment fire including 1-year-old girl. An
apartment fire set by a child playing with a lighter, led to heavy smoke
filling nearly every floor of the south Bronx 27-story apartment building and
left 37 people harmed. More than 135 firefighters fought the three-alarm blaze
for more than 2 hours which resulted in multiple choking injuries. Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/south-bronx-fire-injures-16-including-child-article-1.1315732
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Banking and Finance Sector
6. April 14, Chicago Tribune – (Illinois) Wilmette
police working with feds on credit, debit card fraud case. Police in
Wilmette began working on an investigation with the U.S. Secret Service after
receiving several reports of out-of-State credit card fraud from residents who
recently shopped at Treasure Island grocery stores. Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/suburbs/ct-met-wilmette-credit-card-fraud-20130414,0,6075266.story
7. April 12, Amarillo Globe-News – (Texas) Woman
pleads guilty to fraud in Pampa credit union scheme. The former loan
officer for the Pampa Teachers Federal Credit Union pleaded guilty to stealing
over $400,000 from the credit union by diverting payments, creating false
paperwork, issuing loans in customers’ names, and other deceptive means.
Source: http://amarillo.com/news/2013-04-12/woman-pleads-guilty-fraud-pampa-credit-union-scheme
8. April 12, New York Times – (International) Former
Credit Suisse executive pleads guilty to inflating the value of mortgage bonds.
A former Credit Suisse trader extradited from the U.K. pleaded guilty in
federal court to fraudulently inflating the value of mortgage bonds during the
2008 financial crisis. Source: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/ex-credit-suisse-executive-pleads-guilty-to-inflating-value-of-mortgage-bonds/
Information Technology Sector
33.
April 15, Softpedia – (International) Web
hosting company Linode hacked, Seclist.org impacted. Linode, the Web
hosting provider for Seclist.org, detected suspicious activity on its networks
as attackers attempted to access the virtual private server (VPS) systems of
Seclist.org. Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Web-Hosting-Company-Linode-Hacked-Seclist-org-Impacted-345365.shtml
34.
April 15, Threatpost – (International)
Online poker rooms fraught with vulnerabilities. Findings published by
two researchers found that many online poker Web sites whose clients rely on
“skins” to design the gaming environment are vulnerable to attacks due to the
Web site’s software updating infrastructure. Source: http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/online-poker-rooms-weighed-down-vulnerabilities-041213
35.
April 12, Krebs on Security –
(International) Brute force attacks build WordPress botnet. A growing
series of brute force attacks against Wordpress blogs appears to be designed to
compromise servers and recruit them into a large botnet that is already
comprised of over 90,000 servers. Source: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/04/brute-force-attacks-build-wordpress-botnet/
Communications Sector
36. April
12, Loveland Reporter-Herald – (Colorado) Weather knocks
out emergency weather radio. An April 9 storm knocked an emergency weather
radio transmitter out and damaged equipment in Greeley. The AM radio frequency
will likely be down for two weeks until repairs are made. Source: http://www.reporterherald.com/news/ci_23012323/weather-knocks-out-emergency-weather-radio
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